Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But what about lean startup, rapid sprints, agile But aren't there entire methodologies that are meant to get to good ideas faster? Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle? Getting a product to market can take years or even decades. Getting to a good idea can be a relatively short affair.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Hustle Time (Time to Market): Just how speedily are those fresh-out-the-oven products reaching the shelves? Team Vibing (Employee Engagement): Feel the excitement in the air? Check if your new ideas leave them all smiles. Check how pumped your crew is about all these innovation buzzwords.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Internet of things Strategy 113

IM Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Steve Blank, a contemporary innovation thinker (and, dare I say, philosopher), popularised the widely accepted principle “Get Out Of The Building,” urging entrepreneurs to engage directly with customers early in the product development cycle, challenging critical assumptions.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Enhancing Customer Satisfaction: Deliver higher-quality products and services by improving processes. Methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma , and Kaizen provide proven frameworks for process improvement. Lean eliminates waste, Six Sigma minimizes defects, and Kaizen fosters a culture of continuous improvement.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. Allocating small initial budgets to get to the next stage in a lifecycle early on (e.g.

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Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By integrating practices like the lean startup methodology and agile product development into your product development life cycle , you can position your business to pivot quickly and effectively when disruptive opportunities arise. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive to the changes in the market.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

It helps organizations create products and services that truly resonate with their customers. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often. This human-centred approach emphasizes understanding user needs and behaviours, rapid prototyping, and iterative refinement.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It can enable how ideas flow from innovation through entrepreneurship and into established business practices, and how larger businesses can engage with and benefit from entrepreneurial energy.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

Paradigms of product development have shifted significantly in the last decade. We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn.

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Integrative Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2016

More and more corporations seek to engage with startups by pursuing corresponding activities across dedicated ecosystems and incorporating them in exploration units along with internal ventures. Startup engaged naturally most in those vehicles not requiring any kind of equity. out-of 10 in CVC, which is still very high.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

But what we should be asking, in much the same way the "lean startup" folks are asking about bare essentials and "minimum viable products", is: what is the minimum investment it takes to make my (team, product group, line of business, company) more innovative? And of course time for the product development process.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They provide narratives on how rapid prototyping accelerates the innovation cycle, thereby reducing time and resources spent on product development. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As technologies evolve and disruptions become an ever-growing presence of the business landscape, one of the best ways to improve the quick delivery of high-value innovations is by embracing digital transformation concepts in product development.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Learn to embrace disruption through collaboration.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Challenge: A giant problem in media (and in every industry, really) is that in many organizations, there’s not enough time and space created for employees to engage with customers on a consistent basis. Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. What’s an Innovation Sprint?

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Integrative Innovation

JULY 21, 2014

On the other hand, by engaging with established firms, a startup acquires capabilities to develop and scale their business, e.g. supply chain and production capacity, sales and marketing channels and last but not least an existing customer base. But what kind of engagment with new ventures should be pursued?

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, Product Development, AT&T. Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As

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Planview

MARCH 3, 2016

This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. This increases employee engagement and gives them a creative outlet and ownership over the company’s investment in innovation. Methodologies.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Have you noticed that the Lean Startup concept has been getting more and more attention lately? Which is all a good thing really, as it creates the occasion for us to examine what is the "best" way to launch new brands, products, and companies. What's In Your Sandbox? Sep 04, 2014 | Anthony Mills. Why is this?

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the eyes and ears of the parent corporation, a new Innovation Outpost’s first priority is to “sense” innovations by actively engaging with the Innovation Cluster. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio? see the previous post.).

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the eyes and ears of the parent corporation, a new Innovation Outpost’s first priority is to “sense” innovations by actively engaging with the Innovation Cluster. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio? see the previous post.).

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

Business innovation can manifest in various forms, from adopting cutting-edge technologies to developing entirely new business models. Crucially, innovation isn’t limited to product development; it can also involve reinventing business processes, revamping organizational structures, or even reshaping corporate culture.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of the riskiest assumptions for any new product or feature is that customers actually want it. The client sought to gather feedback about employee engagement and tasked this research team with distributing a survey to the entire company of more than 20,000 global employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Our current silver bullet is Lean. The Lean movement began in manufacturing , then took the startup world by storm, and now the methodology has crept into companies of all kinds and sizes, both in practice and in jargon. Plenty has been said and written praising the benefits of the Lean approach. But what is lost?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

In 1991, Don Reinertsen and Preston Smith introduced the world to the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process. Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation. Sept 27, 2015 | Anthony Mills.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. Engaged support for strategic and tactical innovation initiatives developed by others.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Identify critical follow-up engagements to make sure everyone is heard. There is a stark difference between the decision the executive leadership is leaning towards and how the rest of the company sees things. What major problems does the North American office see with new product development?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, CCS Product Development, AT&T. "As

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

We are all lean now — or soon will be. As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making.

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve spent any time with me in product development, you know I like to quote the sometimes overused phrase, “People in companies get stuff done in spite of org charts, not because of them.” I’ll confess to that in a moment, but the title of this article has likely already given away my leaning.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’d be hard to choose two words that feel less descriptive of life inside a large organization than “lean” and “startup.” ” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. Ramazan Balay. First, the benefits.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

This includes structured phases such as idea generation, development, prototyping, testing, and finally, implementation. Methodologies like Agile, Lean, or Design Thinking may be integrated into this component to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Software Review 52

Software Review Innovation Software Design Thinking 52

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the eyes and ears of the parent corporation, a new Innovation Outpost’s first priority is to “sense” innovations by actively engaging with the Innovation Cluster. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio? see the previous post.).

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 40

Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Learn to embrace disruption through collaboration.

Innovation 40

Innovation Disruption Survey Radical Innovation 40